Carl Sandburg 
Always the Young Strangers 
The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.   Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.   In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.